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The start-ups that didn’t start and most probably won’t Startups

People waiting for departure at Tenerife South airport terminal / Jeremy Page - Flickr

Islas Afortunadas, Aerocanarias, Victoria Airways Bird Blue… Every now and then a new project is said to be about to start operations. We have been following what is going on with these start-ups in this blog but at the moment none of them have seen the light of day. Last Friday, Preferente.com published an article on this subject. The Canary Islands has been used for several attempts which don’t seem to end in anything tangible. One of these is the case of Islas Afortunadas, a company to be based in the Canary Islands. They intended to begin operating in the fall of  2013. The idea…

Bird Blue Air Line the new startup in the Canaries Startups

People waiting for departure at Tenerife South airport terminal / Jeremy Page - Flickr

There are at least three projects for airlines based in the Canary Islands. You may remember our post Summarizing the ongoing Spanish startups, published in October 2013. Out of those 4 projects, Evelop is already operating. With regard to the projects for the Canary Islands, Preferente.com recalled those two to announce a new possible startup: Bird Blue Air Line. According to this information, none of this project has started so far. Mainly due to the entrepreneurs lack of confidence. Bird Blue Air Line is the last proposal on the Tenerife’s Government desk. Sources from the project said the airline would cost approx…

Summarizing the ongoing Spanish startups Airlines,Startups

Evening flight. Square composition / Fotolia

Following with the ongoing Spanish startups this is what the latest information says:Islas AfortunadasAeronoticiarioSCQ informed on Oct 4 that they are expecting to start operations in December with a Gran Canaria-Tenerife flight. Afterwards they intend to go extending operations to other destinations such us Madrid, Barcelona and Santiago de Compostela at first, to go on with the African destinations or the European routes of Paris, London and Berlin. But their intentions are to go far beyond and aim to fly to Dubai or even Venezuela.The airline’s home base would be Gran Canaria and the fleet would consist of A319 and A321,…

Islas Afortunadas Air: New airline based in the Canary Islands Startups

In continuation with the new projects for the Canary Islands that we had mentioned in an earlier post, different Spanish media announced last week that Islas Afortunadas Air will start operations in October this year.Islas Afortunadas Air would be a project different from Aerocanarias although both web sites are under construction at the moment.Islas Afortunadas Air would start operations in October this year with 10 BAe146 and 2 A320 connecting their home base in Gran Canaria with every island in the Canaries as well as with Madrid, Barcelona, Galicia, Morocco and Mauritania.To start with, the company will hire about 450 people but they aim for a staff of 1,100 employees…

Aerocanarias: Canary entrepreneurs’ new startup Airlines,Startups

Aerocanarias: A group of canary entrepreneurs headed by Carmelo Padilla, are finalizing the creation of a new airline called Aerocanarias that could replace Spanair by covering the hole left by that airline after its bankruptcy in January 2012.This project is being managed a few months ago to operate routes to the mainland and between the islandsShortly after Spanair announced its closure, Carmelo Padilla registered the domain aerocanarias.com, thus the company can operate on the Internet as soon as it has been established and implemented. Another indication that the project is still going on, is the fact that the digital rights of…